Chapter 24- The trap.

Author's POV. "No! She didn't push her out of the house!" Daisy said, over the phone, "She says she is not heartless to put her in danger! Mom she even increased the security in the area." "Daisy! Henry had done such a great job, you were supposed to just convince Madame Rosé to push her out but you can't do that. Because of you, my son's hard work has gone in vain." "I tried my best mom." "Just shut up now! Now do as I say! Talk to Sasha!" Sasha?" "Yes! I hope you understand what you are supposed to say!" "Yes mom!" Said Daisy with confidence. "Please act smart now! Just learn something from that girl Sasha! Can you see how she manipulated Rosé? I can't understand she changed the mind of Rosé! The one who was so prestigious and couldn't bear a tiniest stain on her reputation, for her going against her words was a biggest sin, till now she didn't let Alex cancel this engagement because she was worried that we will spoil his reputation but now, she don't care about it! How?" ——— "I have changed for my son!" Said Madame Rosé, "I still can't bear imperfections and I am still worried that the Mayor will do everything to spoil my reputation but for me what my son thinks about me, matters more than what the world thinks about me." "You are the world best mother Madame Rosé" complimented Sarah, while massaging Madame Rosé's head. ——— "Don't worry Sasha! We all are with you." Daisy said, hugging Sasha. For an instant Sasha hugged her back, trusting her but then she remembered what Henry said.  She backed away, wiping off her tears.  "Salazar is a very dangerous man. I don't mean to scare you, I am just stating the truth." Daisy stated cunningly. "He said that he will get you by hook or by crook. And if Alex or his family tries to come in between he will kill everyone." Sasha stared at her in disbelief, "I am scared for Alex, last night, his men attacked Alex, if it wasn't Alex's driver, they would have killed him. Alex still have some internal injuries. What will happen if he attacks him again? Sasha will you be able to live with the blame of Alex's death?" "No.." Sasha mumbled, "He can't attack Alex!" "He had already attacked him and if he didn't get you he will kill Alex, Madame Rosé and everyone to claim you. You know how strong he is, don't you?" Sasha nodded as the fear of loosing Alex drove her insane. She knew she shouldn't trust Daisy but what she said made sense to her.  "What should I do Daisy? I don't want to risk Alex's life."  "Shhh. Don't worry Sasha! I know it is difficult for you but you need to be strong. For yourself. For Alex." Sasha couldn't see the cunning, selfish self hidden behind Daisy. She felt like a friend to Sasha and she felt into the trap, oh so easily. "The only way to come out from this trap is to enter in it." Sasha furrowed his brows. "I mean, if you give yourself to Salazar, he will have no reason to harm Alex." "He will kill me Daisy! Or even do worse to me." "I know you are scared but you also know that today or tomorrow he will get you. Do you want to be dragged on Alex's body by him?" Sasha shook her head. "Look, let's trap Salazar in his own plan. What we do is, you surrender to him, I will fix a tracker in your wrist. And with the help of police, we will arrest Salazar before he could raise his finger on you. This way Alex will be safe and you will also be saved from him forever." Sasha hugged Daisy, "Thank you so much Daisy. I am so sorry to misjudge you." "It's okay Sasha. Honestly I hated you at first, let's say because I was jealous but now I understood what true love is. And Alex really loves you, not me. And J know what happened between you and Henry. You know he was just a little possessive for his sister, but don't worry I explained him. I will personally make him apologize to you in front of Alex, so that the misunderstanding between you too ends. For me Alex's happiness is everything's and it is with you not me. All I want now is to see you both happy." "Thank you so much Daisy. Thank you so much." ——— Sasha peeked into Alex's room. He was asleep, she walked towards him, and gently sat on the side of his bed. He touched his bandaged hand, as her eyes landed on the bandage on his head. She felt a pang of hurt in her heart. "I am sorry Alex," she read the paper in her hand, " What you were doing for me was beyond love, but still I kept on questioning your love. I kept on blaming you, I had been so harsh with you. I was trying ,my best to hurt you, to make you jealous but how much did I knew that all this while you were trying your best to save me, to make me happy. How foolish was I! I am sorry Alex. Look what have I made you! I have risked your life to save mine! I had been so selfish! but not anymore!" Sasha wiped her tears and continued, "I won't let any harm shadow you, I am going Alex! I am going to save your life. I know its risky but I can't let you face everything all alone! I love you Alex!" she kissed his forehead, before placing a paper below his glass of water and turning to leave, but before she could do that, Alex held her wrist. She gulped a huge lump in her throat and turned to face him, his eyes were closed and he was in a deeep slumber, she exhaled a breath he had been holding for a while. She squeezed her eyes as she removed his hand from her wrist, "I am sorry Alex, I had to go." as soon as she freed her wrist from his hold she ran out of his room as fast as she could. ------ Dressed in a black hoodie and baggy jeans, she dug her hands in her pockets. Sasha's heartbeat was louder than the country's band. she licked her lips whilst climbing top the mountain. She checked on the tracker watch in her wrist, and sighed when she saw it working. "I had trust you with all my heart Daisy, please help me. Please be on time." She halted in her steps as I saw his back facing me. Beads of sweat trickling down she fidgeted with her fingers. He turned to face her but she was too scared to look at his face. She felt like a prey who had entered himself in a lion's den, begging him to eat him. He walked towards her with slow steps until he was just an inch away from her. "Look at me Princess." he whispered but she dared to meet his face. He repeated a little louder and she shivered at his tone. She slowly managed to meet his gaze. His face was as dark as before, covered in beard, scars evident on his face and a tattoo of a snake just below his ear, on the side of his neck. He was an epitome of danger. He removed his sunglasses and his eyes, as black as a coal met with her soft ones. He smirked, holding her chin, not so gently, "I am so glad to see you hear princess." The way he said princess spiked each and every hair in her body. She felt herself shivering with fear and she already started to regret her decision. "I didn't knew you are this smart. I must say you had made a perfect choice. Don't worry I won't kill you, though you killed my right hand I won't strangle you to death, nor will I sell you to human traffickers," At that moment she felt like a heavy burden have been lift off her shoulders. "I knew you aren't a bad man. You have understood that I was not wrong. You forgave me right?" she beamed. "Yes sweet heart I forgave you." he whispered in a husky voice, his tone was alarming. "Thank you so much. Can I go now?" She felt relieved she was so happy, she couldn't believe her ears. She never thought Salazar would forgive her so easily. His chuckle echoed in the valley as he shook his head. Sasha stared at him bewildered. "Oh princess! This is the thing I love about you. You are so naive yet feisty! You are the perfect girl for me." He grabbed her waist pulling her closer, and tugging a strand of her hair behind her ears he whispered, "I will preserve you in my cage. I will make you my princess forever." He kissed her cheek as Sasha wriggled in his grip. "Leave me please. Let go off me. I can't be yours." "SHHH." he held her firmer and said, "If you co operate like a good girl, I will be gentle with you, but if you try to act smart or fight back, i won't think twice to show you who the real boss is! Don't force me to show you my brutal side!" Sasha stiffened as she waited for Daisy to arrive with the police. "Let's go now! I don't want the sun to damage your beauty." He tugged her towards his car as she kept on looking back for the police vans to arrive and arrest him, but none of them was in view. Salazar removed her phone from her pocket and threw it on the floor. His fingers traced on the watch in her wrist. "Go Please No! Please go no!" she prayed that Salazar don't notice the tracker fitted in and throw it away because it was her last hope. If she lost the tracker, police will never be able to find her. She saw Salazar smirking and when she thought he will remove her watch, he left her wrist and pushed her in the car, before sitting next to her. Sasha thanked god, and hugged her hand with the watch close to her chest. Hoping for them to find her soon. ------- Sasha sat on the wooden flooring in front of Salazar, tears tricking her eyes. "Come on Princess, stand up and get dressed for your to be husband." Salazar said, throwing a black one piece on her lap." Sasha checked on the tracker and it was still working. 'Where are you Daisy?' she said to herself. Salazar walked to her and laughed, "So who are you waiting for?" Sasha hid her wrist in her pockets and shook her head, "N-no one." but he removed his hand and caressed her wrist with his fingers before removing her watch and plucking out the tracker device, "So who will be coming to rescue you? Alex?" She stared at him as if he was a dinosaurs and she was its little prey that got caught. He walked towards her, pulling her up by hairs and hissed, "You are in my cave and no one can take you out from here. Stop dreaming of escaping from here princess." She yelped as he pushed her to the ground and threw the dress on her, "Get ready before I lose my temper!" It felt like she found her lost courage, she snapped up and scowled, "I will never be yours! Who are you to cage me, soon you will be caged behind the bars." He laughed again and said, "I am not a joke Ms, Sasha! I am the one of the leaders of Russian Mafia! Police is after me since years but no one had found me yet. Who do you think will inform the cops that you are here?" "My friend! My true friend! She will bring the cops here. You just wait and watch!" Salazar laughed a devilish laugh and ordered his guard, "Bring her here!" The guard left and the door opened in a second as Daisy entered in behind the guard. "Daisy!" Sasha muttered horrified, "He got you too! Are you alright?" "No I am not Sasha. He kidnapped me and tortured me, I am so scared. he will kill me." Daisy cried like a puppy but in a second she burst out laughing, "Hahaha...Look at your face. Hahaahha." Sasha stared at her confused. "Ufff. I am mad over your innocence. Princess." Salazar commented, "You still didn't understood?" he paused for a second but when Sasha's expression didn't changed, he said, " She is the one who helped me, not you. This tracker game, police talks were all fake, they were just to manipulate you so that you surrender yourself to ,me on your own." Sasha fell numb. She couldn't believe what he said, until Daisy sat across Salazar and accepted the puff of weed Salazar offered her. "Why did you do this to me Daisy? I trusted you. Why Daisy why?" "You are asking me why? What did you expected I would do?" Daisy said, "Sasha, Alex and I met on a magical night. My phone was about to switch off and I had a live video going on. My thousands of followers were waiting to see the fireworks. I was on the verge of losing it then he came in. He gave me his power bank and that night we both went live together. We spent the whole night gossiping and clicking pictures. My follower counts spiked because of him, at that moment I knew he is the perfect guy for me. And my intuitions turned firm when he saved me from the social bullies. I had loved him with all my heart. But then he went out of town and you trapped him! I can do anything o get my love back!" "How could you." Sasha cried.